The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Together with a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 3G. Allen & Unwin, 1924 |
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... England . ' " The introductory lines are these : ' It is difficult to avoid praising too little or too much . The boundless panegyricks which have been lavished upon the Chines learning , policy , and arts , shew with what power novelty ...
... England . ' " The introductory lines are these : ' It is difficult to avoid praising too little or too much . The boundless panegyricks which have been lavished upon the Chines learning , policy , and arts , shew with what power novelty ...
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... England , a park - wall at a thousand pounds a mile ; now a garden wall must cost at least as much . You intend your trees should grow higher than a deer will leap . Now let us see - for a hundred pounds you could only have forty - four ...
... England , a park - wall at a thousand pounds a mile ; now a garden wall must cost at least as much . You intend your trees should grow higher than a deer will leap . Now let us see - for a hundred pounds you could only have forty - four ...
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... England when advanced in life , ever pronounces English tolerably well ; at least such instances are very rare . When I maintain that language must have come by inspi- ration , I do not mean that inspiration is required for rhetorick ...
... England when advanced in life , ever pronounces English tolerably well ; at least such instances are very rare . When I maintain that language must have come by inspi- ration , I do not mean that inspiration is required for rhetorick ...
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... England , and there comes a Quaker who tries to pervert them to his principles ; you would drive away the Quaker . You would not trust to the predomination of right , which you believe is in your opinions ; you would keep wrong out of ...
... England , and there comes a Quaker who tries to pervert them to his principles ; you would drive away the Quaker . You would not trust to the predomination of right , which you believe is in your opinions ; you would keep wrong out of ...
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... England . I believe there are about five or six of them ; they seem very proper to allure backward readers ; be so kind as to get them for me , and send me them with the best printed edition of ' Baxter's Call to the Unconverted . ' I ...
... England . I believe there are about five or six of them ; they seem very proper to allure backward readers ; be so kind as to get them for me , and send me them with the best printed edition of ' Baxter's Call to the Unconverted . ' I ...
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